Tuesday, January 2

🚨NATION

📌 Gender-neutral toy aisles, blackout license plates, anti-book bans: New laws for 2024 (AXIOS)

📌 Missing foreign exchange student found safe inside tent in Utah in 'cyber kidnapping' (ABC NEWS)

📌 Driver strikes, injures 8 people on sidewalk blocks from Times Square while trying to escape police (CBS NEWS)

📌 Haley, DeSantis both say they will pardon Trump if they are elected president and the former president is convicted (WASHINGTON POST)

📌 To avoid New York rules, hundreds of migrants dropped off in New Jersey (NY TIMES)

🌎 AROUND THE WORLD

📌 Israel to begin withdrawing troops from Gaza, but warns war will last most of year (CBS NEWS)

📌 Israel’s top court strikes down key part of judicial overhaul, in ruling that could reignite divisions as war rages (CNN)

📌 South Korean leader stabbed in neck by attempted assassin (GUARDIAN)

📌Powerful quake rocks Japan, nearly 100,000 residents ordered to evacuate (REUTERS)

📌 Chinese leader threatens Taiwan will "surely be reunified" with China (AXIOS)

📱BUSINESS, SCIENCE & TECH

📌 Over 657,000 infant formula cans recalled over potential bacteria contamination (ABC NEWS)

📌 Respiratory virus activity is high and rising across the United States, CDC data shows (CNN)

📌 Beer drinking in America falls to the lowest level in a generation (NBC NEWS)

📌 Covid slashed consumer choices. This is why they’re not coming back: (WSJ)

🎬 SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

📌 Michigan's goal line stand in overtime beats Alabama 27-20 to win Rose Bowl (THE ATHLETIC)

📌 Nigel Lythgoe denies abusing Paula Abdul as sexual assault lawsuit looms (BBC)

📌 Powerball jackpot reaches $810 million to start 2024 (THE HILL)

📌 Ex-cycling world champion Dennis reportedly charged after Olympian wife killed by vehicle (ABC NEWS)